Food sensitivities tend to cause vague symptoms like brain fog, headaches, migraines, joint pain and fatigue. In this video, functional medicine specialist Amy Myers, MD, explains how food and gluten sensitivities can affect the body.
So gluten sensitivity is, well food allergies are IGE reactions, you eat a strawberry, you break out into an urge, you probably know if you have one of those. Sensitivity or food sensitivities in general, are much more vague, they can cause things like brain fog, headaches, migraines, joint pain, fatigue, things like that and so they can take up to three days to come out, they're called IGG reactions, and they can take 72 hours to develop, so often people are walking around with these things having no idea until they do some testing or something like an elimination diet to figure it out.
Functional medicine specialist Amy Myers, MD, is a physician, author and teacher in Austin, Texas. She is a leader in functional medicine and helps people with chronic illness though her dietary based program, online books and courses.
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